Courses
For a list of current course descriptions please click here.Spring 2022
This course introduces major world religions and the scholarly methods of the academic study of religion. Religions covered may include Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and/or New Religious Movements. Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 5: Humanities.
1110.001
Instructor: Wolne, Daniel
Time/s:
Location: Centennial Engineering Center 1041
- Type: Lecture
1110.002
Instructor: Candelaria, Michael
Time/s:
Location: Dane Smith Hall 328
- Type: Lecture
1110.003
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
1110.004
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
1110.005
Instructor: Candelaria, Michael
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
An introduction to the history, beliefs, practices, and development of the early Christian religion as reflected in the New Testament, using a historical and critical approach, with attention given to understanding its socio-cultural and political environment.
1126.001
Instructor: Yates, Franklin
Time/s:
Location: Dane Smith Hall 126
- Type: Lecture
Introduces students to how people’s religious beliefs and practices influence their perspectives on health and their approaches to medical care and treatment. In units arranged by religion or region (North American indigenous religion, African religion, Hinduism, Chinese religion, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), students will learn how religious beliefs and practices relate to rites of passage, sexuality, women’s health, diet, mental health, trauma, and end of life issues. In addition to assessing students’ knowledge of the relationship between religion and perspectives on health and medical care and treatment, course assignments will raise students awareness of how people with different worldviews interact. Course requirements or activities also will teach them how to evaluate their own biases and how to assess the biases and credibility of various sources of information about religion, health, and medicine found on the Internet and elsewhere.
1550.001
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
1550.002
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
2110.001
Instructor: Ulrich, Katherine
Time/s:
Location: Dane Smith Hall 128
- Type: Lecture
2110.004
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
2110.005
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Location: Online MAX 1
- Limited to Managed Online Program Students Only. Online course visit http://online.unm.edu/schedule
- Type: Lecture
This is a survey course that will cover major religious traditions of the West, including the three Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and other religious systems. The course will focus on how each tradition has developed historically and how it exists in the world today. Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 5: Humanities.
2120.003
Instructor: Ray, Donna
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
An examination of the social, political, and cultural aspects of fundamentalism in the contemporary Muslim world.
313.001
Instructor: Banihashemi, Mozafar
Time/s:
Location: Mitchell Hall 211
- Type: Lecture
(Also offered as CLST 319) This course examines issues pertaining to gender and sexuality in ancient Mediterranean religions and cultures, with special attention paid to Greco-Roman religion, Judaism, and Christianity.
319.001
Instructor: Gorton, Luke
Time/s:
Location: Mitchell Hall 102
- Type: Lecture
(Also offered as CLST 320) This course examines the perception and reality of magic in the ancient Mediterranean world by examining relevant texts, spells, and relics to situate it within the practice of ancient religion.
320.001
Instructor: Gorton, Luke
Time/s:
Location: Mitchell Hall 101
- Type: Lecture
(Also offered as HIST 327) The development of Christianity from the Protestant Reformation to the modern day, with focus on the variety of forms Christianity assumed throughout this period as it moved outward from Europe and became a world religion.
327.001
Instructor: Ray, Donna
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
This course takes saints as an entry point for exploring North American Catholic history. We focus on the practices by which ordinary Catholics make men and women into saints after their deaths.
343.001
Instructor: Holscher, Kathleen
Time/s:
Location: Dane Smith Hall 228
- Type: Lecture
Studies in major religious figures or movements. Topic varies.
347.001 T: Food and Religion
Instructor: Ulrich, Katherine
Time/s:
Location: Mitchell Hall 221
- Type: Topics
347.002 T: Sociology of Religion
Instructor: Wood, Richard
Time/s:
Location: Bandelier Hall East 105
- Type: Topics
347.003 T: Mysticism: East & West
Instructor: Wolne, Daniel
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Topics
347.004 T: Curanderismo
Instructor: Torres, Eliseo
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Topics
(Also offered as HIST 441) This class will cover the rise and development of the nation's religious groups, from first contact to the present day. The focus will be on the social impact of the groups and how they influenced the development of American life.
441.001
Instructor: Ray, Donna
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Seminar
Major religious figures or movements. Topic varies. Prerequisite: one Religious Studies course.
447.001 Sem: Evolution of Religiosity
Instructor: Watson, Paul
Time/s:
Location: Castetter Hall (Biology) 107
- Type: Seminar
447.002 Sem: Sports and Religion
Instructor: Balmer, Randall
Time/s:
Location: Mitchell Hall 221
- Type: Seminar
An examination and critique of influential 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century scientific attempts to explain religion in contrast to supernaturalist theories. Also considered are some postmodernist and evolutionary psychology perspectives on religion. Prerequisite: one upper-division course in Religious Studies.
452.001
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Time/s:
Location: Mitchell Hall 109
- Type: Lecture
(Also offered as ITAL *475) Principally the Vita Nuova and the Divine Comedy.
475.001
Instructor: Duke, Rachele
Time/s:
Location: Mitchell Hall 115
- Type: Seminar
Faculty-supervised individual study in an area of special interest not readily available through conventional course offerings. Restriction: permission of program chairperson.
497.001
Instructor: ,
- Type: Seminar
497.002
Instructor: Wolne, Daniel
- Type: Seminar
497.003
Instructor: Yates, Franklin
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.004
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.005
Instructor: Holscher, Kathleen
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.006
Instructor: Ray, Donna
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.007
Instructor: Bridgers, Lynn
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.008
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.009
Instructor: Gorton, Luke
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.010
Instructor: Banihashemi, Mozafar
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.011
Instructor: Ray, Donna
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.012
Instructor: Lipka, Hilary
Location:
- Type: Seminar
Tutorial arrangement with a member of the graduate faculty.
551.001
Instructor: ,
- Type: Lecture
551.002
Instructor: Banihashemi, Mozafar
Location:
- Type: Lecture
Summer 2022
This course introduces major world religions and the scholarly methods of the academic study of religion. Religions covered may include Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and/or New Religious Movements. Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 5: Humanities.
1110.003
Instructor: Candelaria, Michael
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
1110.004
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
2110.002
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
2110.003
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Location: Online MAX 1
- Limited to Accelerated Online Program Students Only. Computer and Internet connection required. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
Studies in major religious figures or movements. Topic varies.
347.001 T: Curandero Traditional Med
Instructor: ,
Dates: Jun. 13, 2022 - Jun. 24, 2022
Time/s:
Location: Anthropology 163
- Type: Topics
347.002 T: Southwest Lit & Culture
Instructor: Vizcaino-Aleman, Melina
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Topics
Fall 2022
This course introduces major world religions and the scholarly methods of the academic study of religion. Religions covered may include Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and/or New Religious Movements. Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 5: Humanities.
1110.001
Instructor: Candelaria, Michael
Time/s:
Location: Education 103
- Type: Lecture
1110.002
Instructor: Wolne, Daniel
Time/s:
Location: Dane Smith Hall 120
- Type: Lecture
1110.003
Instructor: Wolne, Daniel
Time/s:
Location:
- Type: Lecture
1110.004
Instructor: Yates, Franklin
Time/s:
Location:
- Type: Lecture
1110.006
Instructor: Wolne, Daniel
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
1110.008
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
An introductory study of the structure and content of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures. This class provides the context and reading skills for study and investigation of the Bible and its influence upon western culture and religion.
1120.001
Instructor: Candelaria, Michael
Online ClassTime/s:
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
Introduces students to how people’s religious beliefs and practices influence their perspectives on health and their approaches to medical care and treatment. In units arranged by religion or region (North American indigenous religion, African religion, Hinduism, Chinese religion, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), students will learn how religious beliefs and practices relate to rites of passage, sexuality, women’s health, diet, mental health, trauma, and end of life issues. In addition to assessing students’ knowledge of the relationship between religion and perspectives on health and medical care and treatment, course assignments will raise students awareness of how people with different worldviews interact. Course requirements or activities also will teach them how to evaluate their own biases and how to assess the biases and credibility of various sources of information about religion, health, and medicine found on the Internet and elsewhere.
1550.001
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
2110.001
Instructor: Ulrich, Katherine
Time/s:
Location: Education 105
- Type: Lecture
2110.002
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Location: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Limited to Accelerated Online Program Students Only. Computer and Internet connection required. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
2110.003
Instructor: Shetiya, Vibha
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
2110.004
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
2110.005
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Location: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Limited to Accelerated Online Program Students Only. Computer and Internet connection required. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
2110.006
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
This is a survey course that will cover major religious traditions of the West, including the three Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) and other religious systems. The course will focus on how each tradition has developed historically and how it exists in the world today. Meets New Mexico General Education Curriculum Area 5: Humanities.
2120.001
Instructor: Candelaria, Michael
Time/s:
Location:
- Type: Lecture
2120.003
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
(Also offered as AFST 303) Students will be introduced to the Black experience, which necessitates the redefinition of God and Jesus Christ in the lives of Black people as the struggle for transcendental and political freedom.
303.001
Instructor: Becknell, Charles
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Lecture
An introduction to the origin and development of mystical aspects of Islam, commonly known as Sufism. The course examines themes such as Sufism vis-à-vis Islamic orthodoxy, mystical experience, the literary heritage of Sufism, Sufi organizations.
314.001
Instructor: Banihashemi, Mozafar
Time/s:
Location:
- Type: Lecture
(Also offered as CLST 321) This course examines the development of the genre of apocalypse by reading several early Jewish apocalypses before examining the lasting influence of apocalypticism in one particular Jewish sect, Christianity.
321.001
Instructor: Gorton, Luke
Time/s:
Location:
- Type: Lecture
(Also offered as HIST 326/526) The history of Christianity from its beginnings in Palestine to the eve of the Protestant Reformation. Primary focus will be on the rich variety of forms-doctrinal, liturgical and institutional-that Christianity assumed through the Medieval centuries. Also of concern will be its contributions and significance as a civilizing force. {Fall}
326.001
Instructor: Graham, Timothy
Time/s:
Location:
- Type: Lecture
This course examines Hindu scriptures and practices to understand how deities and their relationships with men and women, high and low castes, and the natural and social worlds have changed over time.
335.001
Instructor: Ulrich, Katherine
Time/s:
Location:
- Type: Lecture
Studies in major religious figures or movements. Topic varies.
347.001 T: Soc of Pluralism & Differ
Instructor: Wood, Richard
Time/s:
Location:
- Type: Topics
347.002 T: Catholicism in LatinAmerica
Instructor: Wood, Richard
Time/s:
Location: Mitchell Hall 121
- Type: Topics
347.003 T: Sex and Religion
Instructor: Lipka, Hilary
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Topics
347.004 T: Curanderismo
Instructor: Torres, Eliseo
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Topics
This class surveys classical and contemporary currents in atheism. We will consider different definitions and types of Atheism, current demographic and psychological profiles of atheists, and key atheistic critiques of arguments for the existence of God. Prerequisite: 1110 or 2120.
355.001
Instructor: Wolne, Daniel
Time/s:
Location:
- Type: Lecture
(Also offered as HIST 441) This class will cover the rise and development of the nation's religious groups, from first contact to the present day. The focus will be on the social impact of the groups and how they influenced the development of American life.
441.002
Instructor: Becknell, Charles
Online ClassLocation: Online MAX UNM LEARN
- Formally designed for online delivery with professional instructional design support and recommended best practices for online instruction. Course materials prepared specifically for online students and instruction. Please visit http://online.unm.edu/getting-started for more information.
- Type: Seminar
Faculty-supervised individual study in an area of special interest not readily available through conventional course offerings. Restriction: permission of program chairperson.
497.001
Instructor: Wolne, Daniel
- Type: Seminar
497.002
Instructor: Bussanich, John
- Type: Seminar
497.003
Instructor: Gerber, Lisa
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.004
Instructor: Banihashemi, Mozafar
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.005
Instructor: Yates, Franklin
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.006
Instructor: Gorton, Luke
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.008
Instructor: Van Andel, Kelly
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.009
Instructor: Ray, Donna
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.010
Instructor: Bridgers, Lynn
Location:
- Type: Seminar
497.011
Instructor: Lipka, Hilary
Location:
- Type: Seminar